rational adj

1 consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought" [ant: irrational]

2 of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: intellectual, noetic]

3 capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers; "rational numbers" [ant: irrational]

4 having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion); "a rational analysis"

English

Pronunciation

• ră'sh(ə)nəl, /ˈræʃ(ə)nəl/, /"r

Rational may be:

• pertaining to rationality
• acting according to the philosophical principles of rationalism
• a mathematical term for certain numbers; the rational numbers
• A rational function, a mathematical function which can be written as the ratio of two polynomial functions.
• the software company Rational Software; now owned by IBM, and formerly Rational Software Corporation
• the most central paradigm of Rational-Emotive Therapy
• Rational, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
• A common misspelling of "rationale".

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